Commonwealth v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
38
cited by 38 later decisions
4
states following
October 2018
most recently cited
36 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Doyle v. Ohio · Jenkins v. Anderson · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Rodriguez v. United States · Commonwealth v. Wright
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“impeachment of a defendant with the fact of his pre-arrest silence should be approached with caution,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.